We’re not spending more than 3 minutes on a goddamn file system for mobile devices.

Since Android devices are much more likely to be shut down abruptly, this gives even more opportunities for btrfs to crash the filesystem

This is likely to be only for the system partition so your personal data should remain safe

I’m sure Google wouldn’t ship devices with btrfs as I’ve experienced it. This might lead to an usable filesystem in the end!

It really baffles me when Google asks btrfs maintainers for the status of encryption. Can’t they implement it themselves and send patches? Aren’t they a multi-billion company with thousands of top-notch engineers? What don’t they understand in the concept of open source?

You’re talking about the people that polled Chrome(ium) devs if they should remove ext3/4 support from ChromeOS.

Something they didn’t need worry about and decided it was a good idea to just scrap it.

Google doesn’t give a flying rodents backside about Open Source or anything the sort.

They use it because they can, without having to pay Microsoft, Apple, etc., money for Licenses.